Page 15 of Omega's Tempting Fate
I nodded. “We noticed entries going missing from our scheduling software, but thought that maybe we’d been forgetting to add them. However, Donna and I were able to confirm that they were not saving when she was viewing our normal program on her PC while I was adding entries through the app. At some point they just stopped saving.”
“You’re sure you followed all the steps correctly?”
I bristled at the question, and his tone. It was the type of lazy troubleshooting that assumed the product was perfect and that it was my problem, which was annoying enough for a regular-release product, but was downright insulting on a beta test.
“Same way, exited that section of the app and went back in, restarted the app… I went through the standard troubleshooting steps,” I snapped.
He looked at the camera. “Whoah, sorry. Don’t need to get so defensive.”
I crossed my arms and glared at the screen rather than respond.
There was a moment of silence before he cleared his throat. “I’ll mark the calendar bug as critical for the team. Shall we move on?”
I nodded. The rational part of me knew that it wasn’t something he could fix as we talked. But my omega side was upset that this alpha couldn’t immediately solve my problem, and that pissed me off for some reason.
He studied me for a few seconds, then brought up another bug.
I answered the questions, but the irritation never went away. I just needed him to fix things.
∞∞∞
“Who pissed in your cornflakes?”
I jumped, having forgotten that Corey was home as I played with the puppies. “God, don’t scare me like that!”
He frowned and handed me a soda. “Sorry, didn’t mean to.”
I sighed. “No. It’s my fault. I was paying more attention to the pups than my surroundings.”
He sat on his couch and frowned at me. “Well now I know part of the reason you were so eager to come over. You’re always ready for dog time when something’s on your mind.”
I leaned back and stared up at the ceiling. “I’m just… frustrated.”
“That much is obvious.”
I scrubbed a hand down my face. “You remember me telling you about that new app I’m testing at work?”
“Yeah. What about it?”
“Well… Somebody from the company developing it scheduled a video call with me.”
“That’s a good thing, isn’t it?”
“You’d think! But he was so damn arrogant! When I told him that it wasn’t saving some calendar entries to the scheduler, he actually asked if I was doing it the right way for all of them!”
“Isn’t that a standard first step to troubleshooting though?”
“That’s not the point!” I snapped. “I can’t believe he’d lead like that, insinuating that it was my fault. They came to us! Why do that if they thought we were incompetent? If he wasn’t so damn sexy…”
“Wait… what?”
I blinked. “What?”
“Say that again.”
“I can’t believe he treated me like I was doing something wrong.”
“No, the part after that.”
